40K Charted: The Chaos Gods Explored – Slaanesh
November 23, 2015 by warzan
It's time to get stuck into one of the stranger Gods from the Warhammer 40,000 universe by Games Workshop. Do you have what it takes to resist the lure of Slaanesh?
Slaanesh is an interesting God brought into being by the extravagance of the Eldar and so has a very different backstory when compared to the other Gods.
40k Charted Series
- Episode One - Getting Into 40k & What’s The Story With 30k?
- Episode Two - The Chaos Gods Explored - Khorne
- Episode Three - The Chaos Gods Explored - Nurgle
- Episode Four - The Chaos Gods Explore - Tzeentch
Have you ever built an army centred around this particular Chaos God?
Let us know below!
@warzan‘s crabs strike again lol Another top episode guys, loving the background exploration, so much better than the typical abridged fluff most other 40k fluff explorations do. Commorragh is pronounced Com-Orr-Ah, like sodom and gomorrah. The biggest issue i have with the current slanessh mini’s is just how lazy and generic the sculpts are, fair enough when they were originally done they were clearly based on the cenobites from the hellraiser films, but things have moved on and now they just look like something you would have found on eurotrash in a german s+m club, although you could argue most… Read more »
Just thought a tainted eversor assasin would make an awesome slannesh HQ character, background could be along the lines of whilst in stasis and travelling through the warp demons get in and rewire him to derrive pleasure from slaughter, so the nutter goes renegade and just doesnt stop killing until a slanesshi cult summons daemons who psychicaly restrain him, for their own pleasure and amusement who can unleash him in battle….
that’s what happened to the Navigator in Ian Watson’s book Harlequin (?)
No idea, tend not to read BL writing is at best average scifi in my experience, and to be fair daemonic interference whilst in warp transit is common trope in 40k lore, not like most of the primarchs didnt get attentions like that when the emperor lost them…
I agree, but Ian Watson is a real cut above. They just don’t do books like that anymore.
Pretty much yeah. There’s also a short story by Storm Constantine in the Deathwing collection where a similar thing happens. I’m pretty sure it was called Lacrymata, and it scared the crap out of me when I was younger!
That sounds like the sort of setup you could have some awesome games of Kill Team with. Either as the Imperium trying to put him down or, as you mentioned, daemons wanting him for their own ends.
my thoughts exactly, even better if played on necromunda terrain…
This.
I was told once by Bryan Ansell that he was a bit disappointed the Slaanesh minis turned out so tame. It’s certainly the case now that with the demographic they aim for that Slaanesh as originally envisaged doesn’t really fit.
Good episode, the 1st guy to kill Lucius was in fact Nykona Sharrowkyn a Raven Guard Captain. He dispatched lucius like he was putting down a rabid animal, taking no pleasure or satisfaction form the act, was simply a job that needed doing to him. How Lucius was ressurected the first time is unclear, it may not have been Fabius, But subsequently it is in fact as AJ has described and Lucius emerges from whoever killed him. the only thing to add i that this happens becasue the person who killed him takes pride or any sort of satisfaction from… Read more »
Nykona Sharrowkyn! good spot!
~Spoiler Alert~
The first time I saw the Doof Warrior on his guitar in Fury Road I thought now there is a Noise Marine if ever I saw one!
So far past 50 shades of gray, that Rule 34 can’t even begin to explain it.
You could call it more like Rule 34,000 😉
Really enjoying the show every Monday! So, HAPPY MONDAY!!!
Slaanesh is way over 50 shades of grey?….oh, now I know why there´s a colour called “Slaanesh Grey” 😉
Slaanesh, has always been a old choas forces who was unable to come to the table with any real power. from the Lost and Damned book
the figures can also be seen with armour on when the daemonettes first came out, once upon a time. if leather could be classed as armour, V’s a marine in power armour with a bolter and chainsword. so being without is just as useful as being with.
And you could always use the Sister of Battle idea.
who remembers this
https://youtu.be/LE1wSSZ-iFs
Slaanesh, well played.
and the original Noise Marine was an 80s rock-band guitarist…
did they just make the miniature because their rock band sang ‘Noise Marines’!?
what the hell were GW doing with a record label?
http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r598/grimcrazy/DSC_0683.jpg
The record label was a shortlived collaboration with another Nottingham institution earache records,its why bolt thrower were on the label and lawn mower death very breifly, essentially digby at earache was mates with one of the GW founders, both liked metal/rock and rolling dice, bish bash bosh license GW artwork for album sleeves, and get bands to reference fluff in lyrics. Only exception to that rule was Bolt Thrower who were already wargamers to begin with. Most of the Warhammer Records backcatalog is still in earaches archives so its not to hard to track down, unless you want original press… Read more »
I never knew GW collaborated with earache. I always wondered why those old Bolt Thrower albums were allowed use licensed art. I might have to (try!) hunt down some of those old records
@irredeemable Yeah warhammer records was basically earache doing the pressing distribution merch and management with gw providing the artwork and license rights to various trademarks I.e the master class in riffage that is world eater on realm of chaos by bolt thrower (actually all the titles on that album)
Bolt thrower isn’t to hard to get hold of especially if you don’t mind non first edition copies.
Good luck finding sabbat’s blood for the blood god flexi disc, you have more chance of finding legion of the damned minis in original blisters than that one lol
an informative show guys the lesser demons remind me of a hen night gone wrong with the beer glasses in full effect.
I love noise marines! Even when I was planning a pure Death Guard/Nurgle army I had included a squad of those guys. One of my favourite chaos stories was a short two page spread back in the 2nd edition Codex Chaos. It was told from the perspective of an Imperial Guard armoured column being attacked in a ravine by noise marines. The idea of sonic weapons that at their low frequencies could buckle the armour of a Leman Russ, and at their highest burst the brains of guardsmen just blew me away. And the whole concept of a noise marine… Read more »
I wish i still had the White Dwarf they first featured in. Must have been about 140?
are there current models for Fabius Bile’s enhanced marines? – the old metal ones looked like big-headed Space Marines with Roid Rage
I think there was a Heresy novel were Imperial Fists got captured and experimented on – it was horrible…
unfortunately there are no current models for his enhanced warriors, although a quick google search yeilds tonnes of awesome conversions! Many don’t seem too difficult!
I always had a problem with the representation of the Chaos Gods and their servants: given GW’s target demographic I feel they’ve never truly been able to flesh them out to the further extremes that are represented in some of the art, novels and comics. Slaanesh suffers most from this limitation I feel. Khorne miniatures could go much further too. Nurgle however seems to suffer least IMO. Tzeentch isn’t bothered much.
I don’t think GW can roll back Slaanesh in 40k as they have in AoS, without restructuring a huge portion of the lore.
That’s why the Daemonettes miniatures with their boobs out didn’t last long before they were replaced, can you imagine teenagers with those lol.
Sad really, they intentionally or not had lots of similarity with the depictions of fertility goddesses of old.
Perhaps I’m just showing my age but we HAVE seen fulgrim in Demon Prince form. Way back in the very early ’90s a 4 demon Princes were released in epic scale (6mm).
Here they are.
Fulgrim
Angron
Mortarion
Magnus the Red
Slaanesh is my fav of the Chaos Gods. He was a really cool figure back in the WFRP times for me but I like the story behind Fulgrim slowly falling to Slaanesh’s hands too. Fulgrim was hmm still is one of the best novels in the Horus Heresy series IMHO.
As for the next series (?) of topics maybe you guys @aj86 and @warzan could cover the Legions? I am especially interested in the Alpha Legion and their Cabal connections that led to their not such a straight forward alliance with Horus.
that would be good especially if they cover the lesser known Primarchs in the process? @yavasa
@warzan I support that request
@zorg That would be cool. There were two primarchs that are not spoken of so maybe some more info on the topic apart from the two or three sentences here or there.
Hears hopping then.
Ah Slaanesh the most misunderstood and misrepresented god of the entire GWs pantheon, the god of excess and decadence, always targeted in the lust of flesh and brushing off everything else. Slaanesh takes the power from the emotions of excess, people that want to be the best there is or wanting everything placing its birth from the prefall eldar civilization, a race depicted as thinking they had discovered everything mastered everything and had nothing else to do to spend their time than lusting for more of everything and anything was a wise choice to illustrate what Slaaness really stands for,… Read more »
Just got around to watching this episode..greatly enjoyable to listening to you two 😎 Especially while glueing together more legionaries for my Sons of Horus! I’m looking forward to reading ‘Fulgrim’ now but I’m still only half though ‘Horus Rising’.. guess I will have to read quicker. I hope you will talk more about the Great Crusade and the Heresy at some stage but whatever you will decide to do next I’ll be tuning in again 🙂 Being mainly interested in historical stuff and not having been into GW a lot for many years now it does come as a… Read more »
Khorne hates Slaanesh more than any other Chaos God.
Regarding where to go next, the Chaos gods covered Daemons and Chaos Marines a little. It would be nice to avoid the Imperium which is the main setting and focus on another faction, such as the Tau or Eldar. Maybe since the Chaos side of things are covered, perhaps the next few articles could cover Xenos.
The Tau article could cover the Tau and the Farsight Enclaves, and some sub factions or septs within the Tau Empire as well as the castes.